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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1906
Page
2
The piece notes cheap Brazos county lands and rising prospects from new shipments and a cannery. It predicts thrifty immigration and truckers, orchardists diversifying, and future profit for early movers while commenting on Roosevelt and canal issues and a local sale at Norwood's Buckskin stockings for 15 cents.
ANOTHER FRUIT AND TRUCK PARM Mrests AW Buys and F W Yeager form a truck farming partnership on twenty five acres east of the city Mer. Yeager moves from Millican to Bryan and will lead the enterprise with rich experience and an irrigated land setup. Minor Morris small incident triggers Washington concern as Congress attention rises.
A compilation of brief items notes sales banking meetings and Knights Templar activities. Includes a for sale exchange listing for the Tucker Hotel a government ginners report of 9721.690 bales several meetings of Ivanhoe Commandery Knights Templar and Hearne banking directors with officers elected. Also announces Henry W. Savage English Grand Opera company in Houston with details of their production scale and personnel.
New York January 9 Dr W G Steger a Vanderbilt and Columbia graduate from a prominent Nashville family attempted suicide at the Audubon hotel by chloroform and morphine He was moved to Bellevue where physicians report he cannot recover He left a note of long standing personal crisis and homicidal mania and willed his body to Columbia University His wife Carrie Dalton a well known Arkansas social figure had been visiting Hot Springs at the time
New Haven coroner reports Charles A Edwards of New York City killed himself with both a gunshot and morphine poisoning at the Abigail Hiler homestead. The autopsy and medical examination found morphine in his system, and the coroner describes a night time sequence ending with unconsciousness and death six hours later, leaving the full cause to a pending official finding.
Telegrams report J Cabell Breckenridge aged sixty two died at his daughter's home in New York City. He served on General John C Breckenridge staff during the Civil War with distinction at Shiloh Murfreesboro Chickamauga Kenesaw Mountain and Baton Rouge. His home was Little Rock with relatives across Kentucky and the South.
Terrible landslip near Rockland street end in Haverstraw New York early Tuesday morning believed to have killed sixteen people. Eight houses collapsed into brick excavations from a clay bank and dropped about 100 feet. The burning houses were still afire at 3 AM.
Santo Domingo authorities likely to accept Morales proposal to abdicate and quit the republic if not arrested for treason. He is believed to be deported on a warship to ensure terms of abdication. Other dispatches note a U.S. postmaster nomination at Homer, Louisiana. Southern Cotton Association set meetings in New Orleans. A Bayou drowning near Lake Charles. Mexico’s cotton crop estimated under 90,000 bales. Packers immunity trial postponed in Chicago. French financiers may aid Russia.
Washington reports complete failure of talks between the Venezuelan government and the Bermudez Asphalt Company. The company's treasurer Clyde Brown has left Caracas and Secretary Root has requested a report from Calhoun to guide immediate department action.
Webh county truck growers met January 9 and unanimously decided to incorporate with a capital of 5000 dollars. The organization will be run by a salaried manager and a board of directors, with most county truck growers belonging to it. Another Blockade Feared reports snow in El Paso on January 9 as a train blockade threats recur.
The Athletic Association at the Agricultural and Mechanical College awarded souvenir sweaters to last season football players in the college chapel. Prof. Potts presided, Dr. H Manham read the season report showing receipts near 2600, expenses around 1600, net about 1000, with 800 used to reduce a 1100 debt to 500. Capt. H S Sargent presented the sweaters to Haltom, Puckett, Richenstein, Boyce, Blake, Loving, Walker, Dean, Utoy, Kelley, Dale, Kendricks, Williams, and Cornell. the season was noted as highly successful financially and in wins.
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